EXPOSED: THE SELF-INFLICTED HAMAS 'MASSACRE' BLAMED BY THE MEDIA ON ISRAEL

◼ An enterprising blogger's diligent spadework has revealed the truth behind an Israeli 'massacre' that never was. (H/T Jonathan Foreman) - James Delingpole/Breitbart London [UK]

According to the Hamas version of events - widely promulgated in the media by ITN, the Telegraph and the Belfast Telegraph - an Israeli airstrike on a crowded market place during a partial ceasefire in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood of Gaza City on July 30th, 2014 was responsible for the deaths of 17 people, including blue-helmeted photojournalist Rani Rayan.

However as Thomas Wictor has incontrovertibly demonstrated using close analysis of film footage of the incident, the deaths were not caused by Israeli shrapnel but by secondary explosions from a vast cache of Hamas rockets.
Oh, and the market wasn't 'crowded' either: it had been closed for the day.

And this particular area wasn't included in the ceasefire zone, either, because Hamas was continuing to fire rockets from it.